Inscribe vs. Scribe — What's the Difference?

To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface.

A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its prominence and status with the advent of the printing press. The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as secretarial and administrative duties such as the taking of dictation and keeping of business, judicial, and historical records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities.

To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters.

A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times.

To enter (a name) on a list or in a register.

A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.

To sign one's name or write a brief message in or on (a gift book or photograph, for example).

A writer or journalist.

To dedicate to someone.

See scriber.

(Mathematics) To draw (one figure) within another figure so that every vertex of the enclosed figure touches the outer figure.

To mark with a scriber.

(transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.

To write or inscribe.

(geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

To work as a scribe.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

To mark with letters, characters, or words.

A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.^W

To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.

(informal) A journalist.

To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

(archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;

To write.

Register formally as a participant or member;

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

Draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible

To record, as a scribe.

Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record

To write or draw with a scribe.

Mark with one's signature;

(carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.

Convert ordinary language into code;

To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Address, as a work of literature, in a style less formal than a dedication

One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.

A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; - so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.

To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

To make a mark.

French playwright (1791-1861)

Informal terms for journalists

Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut

Score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking